ROMANCE 



OF 



THE INSECT WORLD. 



By L. N. BADENOCH. 



IVith Illustrations hv Margaret Badenoch and Others. 



i2nio. Cloth, $1.25. 



"The volume is fascinating from beginning to end, and there are 

 many hints to be found in tlie wisdom and thrift shown by these small- 

 est animal creatures." — Bostott Tifnes. 



"A charming book to read, an interesting one to study, is a little 

 volume of untechnical natural history, ' Romance of the Insect World,' 

 by L. N. Badenoch. The chapter subjects are : The Metamorphoses 

 of Insects — Food of Insects — Hermit Homes — Social Homes — and 

 The Defences of Insects, or Protection as Derived from Color. . . . 

 The author has been able to tell the interesting facts of the insect world 

 in the simplest style and in a remarkably intelligent and lucid manner. 

 And on every page is evidence of the thorough familiarity of the writer 

 with the life of which he writes and his sympathy with the subject. The 

 result is a splendid book to be put in the hands of any youth who 

 may need an incentive to interest in out-door life or the history of 

 things around him." — Chicago Times. 



" Though not written for children, this is a delightful book for the 

 little folk. It tells the wonderful facts in the lives of beetles, bugs, butter- 

 flies and flies, ants and spiders, wasps and bees, and all their kin, their 

 transformations, their methods of capturing prey or laying up food, their 

 care of the young or the feeble in the case of those who have this 

 instinct, and many other things more marvelous than the indifferent 

 would suppose possible. . . . There are few readers of any age who will 

 not feel its charm." — Evangelist. 



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